Edna Mae Burke

November 20, 1922 - July 11, 2016

Edna Mae “Clark” Burke, 93 of Madisonville, TX; passed away on Monday; July 11, 2016 in Livingston. Funeral services are scheduled for Saturday; July 16th at 2pm at Day Funeral Home Chapel in Madisonville with the burial to follow at Farris Cemetery in Madisonville. A visitation is scheduled for Saturday from 10am – 2pm also at Day Funeral Home Chapel. Bro. Lanier Stevens will officiate. Edna was born on November 20, 1922 in Cold Spring, TX to Jack Boykin and Allyne “Guthrie” Clark. She served her country as a member of The United States Women’s Air Corps and was a past state president of the VFW. Edna was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Preston Davis Burke; her grandson, William Frank Dowdell; her brothers, James “Brother” Clark, Robert Vernon (Tencie) Clark, and Charles Douglas Clark; and her sisters-in law, Barbara Clark and Billie Clark. Edna is survived by her daughter, Shirley Lynn Burke Sandlin and her husband Charles Patrick Sandlin; her grandchildren, Holly Kathleen Sandlin, Charles Faron Sandlin and his wife Tommie, Misty Kaye Sandlin Dowdell and her husband Stephen Wayne Dowdell, Sr.; her great grandchildren, Amber Lynn Sandlin, Margie Sandlin Wallace and her husband Cody, Kelsey Sandlin, Kathlynn Marie Dowdell and her husband Bradley Adkisson, Stephen Wayne Dowdell, Jr., and Charles Ray Sandlin; her great great grandchildren, Michael, Cody, and Eli Wallace, Connor and Raelynn Sandlin, and Alexis Alexandria “Lexi” Adkisson; her brother, Herbert Jack “Jim” Clark; her sister, Anna Louise Clark Whatley; her sister-in-law, Jean Clark; and numerous nieces, nephews, and other family members. Serving as pallbearers are: Damon Clark, David Clark, Ronnie Hawkins, Tommy Whatley, Faron Sandlin, and Stephen Wayne Dowdell, Jr. Serving as honorary pallbearers are: Jim Clark, Ethan Gonzales, Weston Clark, J.T. Whatley, and Steve Dowdell.